Re: [Tools-discuss] polls "show of hands": can we include a "i don't understand" or "not enough information" option

n Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 11:05 AM Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
wrote:

> Currently, when there's a show of hands in meetecho, there are two
> actions any participant can take:
>
>  - raise my hand
>  - do not raise my hand
>
> in my experience, if a meeting has 100 participants, you're lucky to get
> 50 that select either of the above options.  At least half tend to give
> no response at all.
>
> There are two reasons to give neither response though:
>
>  - the question is confusing, invalid, wrong, i didn't understand it, or
>    i'm not sure of the answer
>
>  - i am asleep/bored/not paying attention
>
> It'd be nice to be able to to distinguish between these two large
> classes of non-responding participants.  This is akin to including an
> "N/A" or "Don't know" answer in a multiple choice survey.
>
> Could such a option be added?  I don't want clutter with a dozen extra
> options, but it would be useful to know how many people are paying
> attention but object to the binary framing for whatever reason.
>

Is there some reason why the responses have to be canned and can't be
provided by the chairs? Then we could just have as many as the chairs want
and with whatever content.

-Ekr

       --dkg
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